It’s No Dark Night for The Dark Knight

Social Media,Web Culture 21 July 2008 | View Comments

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I saw The Dark Knight at the first IMAX midnight showing Thursday night. In the long line of fans and fanboys, some dressed in Joker or Batman costumes, I kept thinking about the viral marketing and alternate reality game, or ARG, that has now come to an end, I assume, with the release of the [...]

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Why I thought Heath Ledger wasn’t really dead: viral marketing theories and epiphanies

Great Ideas,Wannabe Viewpoint,Web Culture 23 January 2008 | View Comments

When I heard the news that Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday, I couldn’t help being a little skeptical. Not to be disrespectful of the dead, but I thought in the first minutes of the reports that it might all be a clever ruse by a very risky marketing team. Let me take you back [...]

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